I found a 100 year old swimming pool in the forest! 

Stephanie Jarvis has helped so many people, in so many different ways, and never asked for anything in return! She is a beacon for humanity at its best! All the best always, everyone! Thomas!

Congratulations, Dan, for 100 000 followers! I am glad more and more people can see how much can be achieved through work, perseverance, kindness, wisdom.

So many congratulations on reaching 100K. Dan just reached 502K in May 2024. That is some amazing growth in 1 year. Well done!

Love the story of the children and their memories of the swimming pool. Congrats on the 100k subscribers!

You are in this for the long haul, not for instant return. We are excited to slowly watch you work out a plan and to get services connected so that you can work toward a roof. Take your time to do it safely. Love being able to follow this new project from the beginning! 🤗

I’m sure someone has already said this but cover that well now before the kids go exploring! 😱😱😱😱😱😱

Congratulations Dan! Nobody deserves accolades more than you!!😊

"Little things that need to be done before a roof can be put on" Ive been watching all of those not so little things and in Aug 2023 things are looking good !

This isn't months work. This is years of work and discovery before the basics are done. It's the journey that makes the adventure. Love the vlogs. Congrats for 100.000 subcribers🥂🎉

If you've got the patience then so have we! I believe I speak for almost everyone! It's going to be great!! One step at a time, Dan. All the best.💪👍

I think Stephanie’s reaction to the 100k subscribers said it best “Yay” and congratulations 🎊🎉🍾 Well deserved. I do think she’ll be jealous that you got a swimming pool before her 😂😂😂But seriously what an accomplishment and so looking forward to seeing all that you uncover. Love the historical info regarding housing the children during WWII. I don’t think anyone is expecting a quick fix with this chateau. Our Sundays are sorted for quite a long time 😍😍😍Once again congrats 🎊🎉🍾

I am stuttered for words for you Dan. Soooo many accomplishments. The aerial shots are amazing. The history of your chateau so interesting. I for one like the details of your work and seeing it come to fruition. The discoveries you are making on the property is a delight for me as well. Hearing your voice talk about your new adventure is heart warming.

congrats on 100k . It's great to have the personal recollections of the person who was a child there during WWII.

In my country it would have probably been pulled down and replaced by an ugly, architecturally uninteresting structure and constructed with materials that are designed to be obsolescent. To see you take on something of this magnitude, Dan, with it's amazing history and potential is inspiring. It's so remarkable that with RU-vid and Patreon support, you are able to do this, because a few years ago, this wouldn't have been possible. Go Dan!

What a dream it would be that one day it could actually be a usable pool again. What a find.

Kudos to you Dan, you’ve worked your Fanny off for your family anD your Chateau jobs far beyond gardening. B-Roll, music, Brico visits, McDonalds, London, digger shenanigans. I’ve enjoyed them all. Congratulations 🎈 on this major accomplishment!

It never ceases to amaze me, the number of treasures you are finding as you work around the property. May good fortune continue to shine on you. And, of course, lots and lots of energy to get this all done!

Congratulations Dan! 🎉100,000 subscribers is a huge accomplishment!

You work harder than anybody I’ve seen on RU-vid and you still seem to have time for your kids and your wife and you’re a cute little man

I’m along for the ride no matter how lone it takes. Each week is an adventure and I can’t wait! Love the history!

That massive tree will be a wonderful fort and play area for the boys. 🥰 They’ll feel all hidden and secret. Such a lovely place.

Congratulations Dan on your 100,000. You are truely a lovely guy. I have been with you since your early days & will remain with you on this journey. Take care.

The old swimming pool would make a wonderful sunken garden...looking forward to seeing the house completed...

Make a secret garden for your boys in the old pool with proper run off of course. So cool!

Congratulations Dan 100,000 subscribers!!! The ancient pool is so exciting, I think it would make a very unique outdoor dining and sitting area, A private patio of sorts but could be so beautiful and Romantic. I have finally read the history and viewed photos of your château and I am in love with every detail. It truly is a magical refuge and will be again.

I felt like I was watching a TV show! Your filming/editing skills are next level, Dan! So excited for you. And totally invested in following along 😊

restoring the roof is a massive project alone, and will look glorious.

Congratulations on the 100K Dan, I'm sure there will be lots more. This will be a thrilling journey - you are so brave. Don't be pushed to go too fast once work starts - easy to want to give more/better content but some vlogs will be 'clearing up' and we all get it. Please use hard hat and protective shoes - anything can fall, brick inside and branch outside. Take care of yourself.

So glad you’re channel is growing so fast you totally deserve it 🥰 wonderful vlog Dan 🥰

I'm here for the entire journey no matter how long it takes. You do it as you feel it needs to be done 💜 Congratulations on reaching 100000 subscribers 🎉

Binging these, Dan! Exhausted by ripping apart and restoring three rooms in England, so bloody well done!

that would be amazing to bring it back to its old glory days! preserving history

Dan, I am an old, old lady. I would love to see this project finished. God bless if not I will watch from avove.😁👍🏻

It's a surprise gift from the chateau to thank you for your hard work! I look forward to the day when you're able to rest and enjoy in comfort and luxury.

Faerie mushrooms! Your chateau IS enchanted!

You can use the swimming pool as a green house in the future!!

Congratulations on 100k subscribers! Love your videos. It's nice to see work continuing on Analiese and the boy's home. Wonderful that the boys are helping a bit. Interesting story about the pool and the respite it offered to the kids. My heart hurt a bit to hear how they didn't have enough food to heal and nourish their little bodies.

Congratulations Dan, on 100,000 followers! You earned it! It’s lovely to see how your chateau inspires you for the cottage. The red brick is a lovely accent! All the best with every thing!

Congrats 🍾🎉🎊 on the 100,000!! Excited for this adventure!! Great to see work on the farmhouse as well.

Well deserved 100K Dan. Been here since Day 1, and so pleased for you.

You are such a grand detective, Dan! If the chateau was to house kids again who are homeless are needing to be fostered, they could explore and have such a marvelous time exploring and playing imaginative games in the forest with some counselors! Congratulations on the 100K subscribers. Way to go!

Well done to Dan and all the team involved.😀😁

I'm sure if you can rebuild that house you can make that a swimming pool again. Too cool!

Only two weeks ago you hit 100,000. Now you’re at 112,000. Congratulations

The looong proces is why I will follow the proces - I have lived in many houses and my favorite thing is always hunting for whatever is forgotten :)

Slowly does it. There's many surprises and reality checks to come. It's oh so going to be worth it, after the long haul. Congrats on reaching 100K. I'm excited to have found your channel and been privileged to go from the beginning with you. 🌳

Congrats Dan! The old swimming pool is so cool!

Congratulations on 100k. You are rocking it Dan. Keep up the fabulous work, I love following you and the boys.

Yes Dan everyone is itching to see the start of the renovation. You have obviously been looking at and taking advise on where and how to start. And I'm sure there is also tons of paper work too. You will probably need permits etc from the Marie perhaps too? I know I'm really interested in all aspects and will enjoy this journey with you.

Congrats on 100, 000 followers. You most defintely deserve it. 💖

I was a kid in England during the war, as was my husband. We knew in our hearts that the danger of occupation could come to England. He was in his home when it was bombed in one of the worst raids in Manchester. To see this house restored would be wonderful . I am sure there are many charities and the descendants of those children who will be interested in the restoration.

Dan, how exciting! A pool and 100k 🙌🏻 Can‘t wait to see what you‘re up to next!

Wonderful story of the kids who had an idyllic experience away from the war. So special. Congratulations on reaching 100,000! It is well deserved.

It might be a good idea to go through the woods with someone, who knows their trees, because even in the drone footage, you can see some really nice, big trees. And as it was fashionable to have exotic trees around Chateaus, you might want to identify which trees to absolutely not mess with, when and if you start clearing out 🙂

way to go Dan with 100,000! Good thing that you know a good tree guy!

I daresay you will have enough content to keep us hooked for MANY years!

And Congratulations On 100,000 viewers! You’re clearly one of my favorites! Loved watching you and Amaury working together at the chateau!

I’m so excited for this adventure!! I’m happy just watching you mow the lawn and watch it all become uncovered!

By far the Best chateau renovation/restoration video on RU-vid.😃 Thank you for your hard work and great sense of humor too!❤😃😉🥰

I have to admit that when I look at that building, I don't know how you're going to restore it. It is just a show. The amount of work that needs to be done is staggering as is the amount of money that will be required. However, I know that you wouldn't take this on if you didn't know you could do it. I wish you the best of luck. It was a truly beautiful place, and I hope it will be again.

Congratulations Dan, You reach 100,000 K. Well deserved! You give good content, and you so hard working! Well done !!!!!!

Thoroughly enjoy watching your videos! Thank you for sharing your experiences. 😊

Congrats on 100K Dan!! Your vlog will have tons of episodes as the work goes on, and that is GREAT for us viewers!!! Lots to watch!! 👍🏽

7:01 Hi Dan you can buy special liners for swimming pools! Also very easy in this technological age to 're-grout' the walls and bottom with marine grout' - again making it water tight. Yes all the nearby trees need felling and stumping to remove any roots. It would be fitting to restore it (or improve it) so it held water and could be a lovely pool for you and your family. It would in a way be a tribute to all the wonderful children that were saved who played in it! As its a well its 'free water' so GO FOR IT! I Rent a room in a cottage that has its own well - so FREE WATER here too! Wouldn't your priority be to get scaffolding up and one of those VAST temporary plastic roof coverings, they put over houses whilst they build a loft room or re roof the property? It will protect all your new floors and timber!👍👍👍 BEAUTIFUL METAL FABRICATION for your house name!👏👏👏

Dang it Dan. How'd you get to 100 k so darn fast?! Brilliant really. Well done. Worthy of all that hard work. Inspired by you Dan the Man!

That Yew Tree is remarkable, it would be interesting to get an experts opinion on its age at some point, it definitely looks much older than 100 years. 🌳

Loved Stephanie’s message. She surely is very proud of you, just as we are. I don’t know how you are going to afford the renovations but hoping you get lots of support, because you deserve it. You havnt mentioned what your wife thought of it? Is she on board with it because it will be a total commitment of both of you.

It’s so cool to go back and watch this for the first time when I already know how the last ten months have progressed. Future me wants to cheer you past Dan for what you’re about to achieve!! 🎉

Dan, You belong in a Chateau! I knew that when you first started working for Stephanie. You are multi talented and can with a lot of dedication, perseverance and grit will pull this off! I love your imagination that you will and can make a reality! I wish you all the support possible and all the best from Massachusetts!💕

Congratulations Dan, you are a hard worker and a great Dad to your boys.

Love your enthusiasm. You really care about the Chateau.

That swimming pool would make a fabulous sunken garden!

Congratulations Dan on reaching one hundred thousand subscribers on RU-vid! I’m looking forward to following along on your next adventures.

Huge congrats Dan on 100k subscribers. I believed in you and your work ethic right when we first met you on Chateau Diaries and I never stopped believing in you and what you can do. Your subscribers are here for the long haul and I so hope you continue to take us on this fantastical journey with you. However you plan to finance this immense project, I hope you will include your viewers in it for we are invested and so want to see you succeed. You’re a reno machine and an amazing vloger. Congrats again mate and already looking forward to the next vlog. Cheers from Neil in Australia 🇦🇺

Congratulations Dan. - About the swimming pool. You can always clear out the trees, repair the few walls that might need it and make a humongous rootcellar... 😉

I love Stephanie’s little tribute at the beginning. It was perfect.

Bravo, Dan. 100,000 subscribers and so much to celebrate. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🎉🎉🎉

100,000 subs! Congratulations Dan, well deserved!

So excited to see so much support in the comments. I'm rooting for you as well! Stoked to see next weeks vid. I honestly feel like I am committed to this project just by tuning in so early on the journey. I wonder how many viewers feel the same.

Congratulations on hitting the 100,000 mark! You’ve earned every subscription and I’m expecting many more to follow 😊. How wonderful to get such history about your new chateau - if only the walls could talk……..

Dan I just love how stories of the chateau are unfolding for you, making this adventure more and more exciting! Again congrats on your subscription achievements and wishing you huge success on this journey in your life!

Congratulations Dan!!! 100,000 subscribers! You are so humble and hardworking, you deserve all success!❤️

This all amazing!!! Watching you brings back the young girl doing the almost same as you. Except for the self restoring. Watching my mother restoring homes. So happy to have seen you on Stephanie's channel. Thank you Dan.

That was great to hear the memories of the man who lived there as a refugee child. It will be so satisfying to know you are rescuing the Chateau so it will live on to benefit others. I love exploration of old houses, but it's nice to know this one will be restored.

Wow Dan, the excitement is building!!!!! I sure look forward to watching everything you do to restore this beauty!

All your weeks seem to be busy! What a brilliant discovery. Power to you.

Rebuild the pool,don't lost the chance to recover such precious thing

Congrats, Dan ! Brilliant effort and completely deserved. Cheers

I bet DAN you will find many treasures on the way of your renovation. Can not wait Dan the Man. Loved watching😘

Awesome Dan, you know you’ll uncover it don’t you, cos now it’s found, you’ll make it better. Xxxxx

Congratulations, congratulations and congratulations on your hundred thousand subscribers !!!!!!!! and then......boom, an explosion. People are joining to see what we have been viewing for quite a while. I’m referring to the strength and desire to survive through learning how to do just about anything. Dan you have earned the admiration and following of so many people who are just amazed with your creativity and desire to get ahead. I’m so happy for you 🎉🎉🎉🎉

I can’t wait to see the restoration. I hope you restore the pool too.

Yay! 100k! Well done! I have to say I cannot believe how cool, calm and collected you seem to be with this massive project and also dealing with everything else you have going on ! You’re amazing! Congratulations! 🎉🍾 😎

Absolutely fascinating Dan! You found a pool and some history of the château. I’m looking forward to seeing what you do next. Congratulations on hitting 100,000.

It might make a lovely sitting/potted garden area? Maybe a BBQ pit? Or maybe add a glass top roof to make it a greenhouse? Water pipe to well might provide water for plants.

Even for a small flat, it can take more than 6 months to have the OK from the French power regulator, when there was no more meter for a long time. For a Chateau this big, I can't imagine how long it will take!!!

Dannnnnn, congratulations on you 100,000 subscribers!!! You deserve, and I’m sure you’ll have more!

What a fabulous find and to hear the history of the pool. I'm glad to hear you've got some kind of 'plan of works'. It makes everything less daunting (having project managed as a job, I find it helps). And slowly wins the race, Rome wasn't built in a day . Im really looking forward to just watching your progress as you slowly bring this beauty back to life. ☺️

It will be amazing too see the swimming pool restored.

I can't wait to renovate that pool..